Reflections after viewing the Japanese-Russian Prison in Lushun

Zhang Yuting, Class 9, Grade 2, No. 4 Middle School, Jiangle County, Fujian Province

The sky seemed to be covered by a cloth bag, gray; the air seemed to be squeezed out of moisture It seems like it's so overwhelming that people can't breathe. ------This is my first impression of the unfamiliar city of Lushun.

It was originally a hot July day, but the weather that day was very unusual. I came to Lushun with a tour group. It was said that I was going to visit the "Lushun Japanese-Russian Prison". I was not very sensible at that time and felt very puzzled. How could I take anyone to visit the prison?

When I got off the bus, I saw some vendors selling small commodities, which was very lively. I looked around curiously, while my mother held my hand mercilessly. The tour guide told us to follow the team closely, waving the flag, and led us to this scenic spot that writes about the vicissitudes and shame of Chinese history...

When I entered the gate, I was simply stunned. A tall red brick wall blocked my sight, blocked a ray of sunlight outside, and blocked the prisoners here's slightest hope of survival. There was some grass surrounded by fences next to the high wall, but the grass was so withered and yellow, so fragile and weak.

The third floor of the prison building. There was only a narrow walkway in the middle, and cells on both sides were separated by thick iron bars. The cells include "examination room", "torture room" and "hanging ground". We first came to the "examination room". I saw some prisoners' clothes on wooden racks and some dishes and chopsticks displayed in the glass kitchen window. The tour guide said that after the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Lushun. After the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, the Japanese invading army frantically arrested anti-Japanese warriors and patriotic compatriots, and escorted them by train from Northeast China, North China and other places to Lushun Prison for imprisonment. When these "prisoners" are finished, they have to take off their clothes and undergo a naked and almost inhuman inspection before they can put on these graded clothes and use these graded dishes and chopsticks.

Going up to the "torture room" on the second floor, I immediately found some frightening things placed here: whips, wooden frames for binding people, and a box shaped like the word "fire". After the tour guide’s explanation, I learned that these patriots lived an inhumane life here. The Japanese soldiers stripped off the prisoners’ clothes, forcibly tied them to tiger benches, and beat them severely with whips. After the wounds have become scarred, use bamboo skewers to open the scars and pour pepper water on them...

In this way, over and over again, the patriots were tortured until they were scarred, sallow and thin, and miserable...< /p>

When the time is right, these great prisoners will be sent to the "hanging chamber" to be brutally killed. The Japanese covered their faces with white cloth and strangled them to death with ropes. After they died, the hateful Japanese soldiers still refused to give up. They threw them headfirst into wooden barrels, and then threw their bodies into the deep mountains and wild forests to let wild wolves hiss at their bodies. It is said that this means that Little Japan will never let the Chinese people stand up...

I walked out of this place of shame with heavy steps. I accidentally glanced at the things sold by the vendors. They are some simple souvenirs, and they are also the painful mark left by history on us... I no longer feel that it is so lively here. Looking up at the sky, I feel that it is darker than before...

Yu Muming, chairman of the Taiwan New Party, once said I wrote an inscription for the exhibition hall of the old site: "A tragic history, a sense of piety, and a surge of grief and anger." Today's China is no longer a country at the mercy of others, and the people have raised their heads again. History is deeply engraved in our hearts, turning into a powerful force to move forward with head high.

Instructor: Wu Guishun

It is time for the Chinese to wake up!

When I was a kid, every time I saw Japanese devils massacring Chinese people on TV, I really hated Japan! As I grew up, I truly understood that period of history and the heinous crimes the Japanese committed against China! The inhumane massacres of Chinese people have been carried out again and again, with corpses everywhere and rivers of blood flowing everywhere! Shock, anger, hatred...that feeling cannot be expressed in words!

During the National Day holiday, I traveled to Dalian and visited the former site of Dalian Lushun Japanese-Russian Prison. It records the heinous crimes Japan committed against China in the long half century from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 to Japan's defeat and surrender in 1945. Ordinary Chinese people and countless revolutionary patriots have been imprisoned in the prison. The prison is divided into two floors. The upper and lower floors are divided into many small rooms. Eight people are held in a small room. There are rice bowls and toilets at the other end of the room. They have to eat, drink, and defecate in the same room. Completed. Moreover, jobs are divided into seven levels, and different levels are given according to performance. Some people can't even eat at all! The room was so small that it would be difficult for eight people to lie down and sleep. In a place as cold as the Northeast, there were no heating facilities at all in winter. Everyone was wearing only a thin prison uniform that could cover their bodies! People often freeze to death! The scene in the hanging chamber is even more shocking! An iron hook came down from the roof, and below was a high platform. In the middle of the high platform was a small door made of wood that could be opened. There is a large wooden barrel under the small door. The "prisoner" was sent to the hanging chamber and first had his identity verified by the forensic doctor. Then his neck was wrapped with a rope and hung on an iron hook. At this time, his feet could still step on the wooden board. Suddenly the wooden board was opened and the person was suspended in the air. . Within a few minutes the "prisoner" was hanged.

After it was confirmed that he was dead, the rope was cut, and the body fell into the barrel below, and was then sent to Dongshan Cemetery for burial. On display at the site is a wooden barrel that was excavated in the 1960s, with only a curled white skeleton left inside! ! !

My soul was greatly impacted! For the first time, I witnessed with my own eyes the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese against China! National humiliation and family feud, as a Chinese we must always bear in mind. Perhaps due to the deep influence of Confucianism, Chinese people have the shadow of "benevolence" deep in their hearts and advocate that "harmony is the most precious". After the founding of New China, we did not ask Japan to make compensation and advocated "taking history as a mirror" to develop Sino-Japanese relations. But what do we get in exchange for our sincerity? What resulted was the development and growth of Japan's right-wing forces, and more Japanese people and Prime Ministers visited the so-called "shrines" where ghosts are worshipped! There is nothing wrong with being patient, but what is wrong is being patient again and again! Everything has two sides, and too much is never enough. Blind tolerance can only make our enemies think that we are weak and easy to bully, and can only make Japan's militarism more and more arrogant. The current appearance of peace cannot conceal the real danger. The dispute over the Diaoyu Islands and the dispute over oil exploration rights in the East China Sea all demonstrate Japan's ambitions and provocation against China. Japan is an island country, and expansion and aggression is the path it must take. As a country with a vast land and abundant resources, China is only separated by a river and must be its first coveted target. This is something we must always be vigilant about. There is also the boycott of Japanese goods movement that is very popular now. I hope that we are not just a slogan or a form. We are not doing it to show others, but for our country, ourselves and our future generations! The Yamato nation of Japan has its own innate bad nature: it ignores life and regards aggression as justice.

Cutting the grass without removing the roots will lead to endless troubles! Let us Chinese people unite, start by boycotting Japanese goods, and destroy their economy and everything else! ! !